Bear With Me Mother

Writer and filmmaker M.T Vasudevan Nair, popularly known as MT , is one of the most illustrious cultural icons of modern Kerala. Chronicling the decadence of a magnificent and uninterrupted agrarian civilization in the lush countryside of central Kerala, his novels and short stories won him the Jnanpith and several central and state Sahitya Akademi awards. MT s work as screenwriter and director is Indian cinema at its finest. To readers in English this book of memoirs and stories offers a rare glimpse into the mind of a literary master who recollects the people, places and ideas that inspired his stories. Featured in this collection are anecdotes, accounts of journeys, a homage, meditations on the literary craft, personal photographs and such classic stories as The Soul of Darkness and Elder Sister Oppol .